Explore it your way.
Follow a story. Play a quest. Or just ask.
Start your journey- 1. Tell Simorgh your time and placeTwo quick questions: how long you have and where you are. Simorgh picks the walk that fits you.
- 2. Follow the story, stop by stopEvery stop brings a hidden story, a then-and-now picture and a choice to make. Read it or have Simorgh talk you through it.
- 3. Collect clues, solve the caseAnswer a question at each stop to win a clue and a passport stamp. At the end, put the clues in order and see how it all fits.
The City That Split Overnight
Cold War Berlin. A wall went up in one night in 1961 and came down in one night in 1989. Collect the clues, then work out how it fell.
See the Berlin walkRembrandt’s Rise and Fall
Golden Age Amsterdam. The most famous painter in the city died poor, in a rented grave. Collect the clues and find out what really brought him down.
See the Amsterdam walkThe Thief Who Made a Star
Paris, 1911. The Mona Lisa vanishes from the Louvre. Follow the trail across the oldest part of Paris, collect the clues, and find out how a theft made her famous.
See the Paris walkAbout us
Clueseum is an AI travel companion that tells the hidden stories of a city, step by step. Your guide is Simorgh, a teal bird with the voice of a scholar-adventurer: curious, warm, a bit funny, never academic.
This website is an early test. We are trying three walks, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris, and we want to learn which parts you enjoy. Stories come first; the points, quests and questions are a light layer on top.
Our stories are compiled from publicly available sources and have not yet been reviewed by a subject-matter expert, so details may contain errors. If you spot one, tell us.
Illustrations are AI-generated and are not historical photographs.
Contact
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